Vivek K Goyal is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University, and a former Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine Award (2002), and the Eliahu Jury Award (1998) from the University of California, Berkeley, for outstanding achievement in systems, communications, control and signal processing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.